Dolce Vita for CA-Clipper

 Product.........: Dolce Vita for CA-Clipper
 Current Price...:  $395 + S&H
 Current Version.: 1.1
 Next Release....:  Version 1.11 by 5/15/93 (Free upgrade)
 Features........: Minor bug fixes and changes.

 Major Release...: Version 1.2 by 6/15/93

 Description:

  Dolce Vita is a library\engine solution that allows you to write TRUE 
  Microsoft Windows applications in CA-Clipper. Dolce Vita encapsulates the
  entire Windows API (application program interface) into an easy to use 
  Clipper library.  Additionally, Dolce Vita takes the responsibility for a
  lot of the tedious coding associated with Windows programming like having
  to worry about which window has focus, repainting screens after moving an
  object, trapping UAEs and more.

  Dolce Vita is 100% CA-Clipper Compatible (Summer  87 to 5.2), requires no 
  special linkers, and there are no royalty and runtime fees.  Dolce Vita 
  allows you to use Windows Resource files created by Resource Editors
  (resource editors are like screen painters for Windows). And to add to that 
  Dolce Vita comes with DVCode, our Resource to Clipper code generator, so 
  you have a choice.

  ALL of the Clipper Commands & Functions are supported INCLUDING Tbrowse, 
  Achoice(), Memoedit(), RUN, etc...Use the tools you already have...Clipper
  Debugger, RTLink, Blinker, RDDs and most functions from 3rd party 
  libraries.

  Version 1.2 Release Notes

  Dolce Vita 1.2 provides a set of enhancements which make it possible to
  build very easily Windows applications in Clipper providing the most
  advanced features of Window: full MDI support, Owner Draw Combo and List
  Boxes, Metafiles, self resizable Controls. Dolce Vita 1.2 offers  a new
  mechanism which makes it fully extensible: you can now develop your
  Window classes in C++ for example and plug them as is in Dolce Vita.

  External Windows Classes: extending Dolce Vita with Windows C++ code

  DV 1.2 offers a new mechanism which lets you develop your own window
  classes in C++ for example, implement them in a DLL and plug them in
  Dolce Vita. DV applications will therefore be able to create windows
  using these external classes and receive all the standard DV messages
  without any additional effort in writing the DLL. An external window DLL
  does not have to deal with the fact that it will be plugged in DV. All
  the possibilities available with 'internal' DV windows are available at
  once with 'external' windows, transparently to the DLL itself:

  o new windows properties (minmax, background colors)
  o resizable controls
  o owner draw List and Combo boxes
  o custom controls
  o ...

  This new mechanism has been used to implement the DV MDI support and the
  new Graphic Controls.

  MDI Support

  A complete and simple MDI support has been added to DV, using the
  'external window classes' mechanism. It is fully compatible with the new
  DV features: Owner Draw List and Combo boxes, Graphic Controls, self
  resizable Controls.

  Graphic Controls

  A new type of control has been created, using the 'external window
  classes' mechanism. It lets you create a Graphic Control in any internal
  or external window and link it with a Virtual Screen or with a MetaFile.
  This new type of control provides a very efficient and flexible way of
  displaying graphics in a window or dialog box. A Style tells the Graphic
  Control how to display the Virtual Screen it is linked when resized, and
  what kind of frame to draw around it (internal or external 3D, 3D
  frame...).

  Virtual Screens

  DV 1.2 offers a new type of Window, created with the CreateWindow
  function with a new style. Any graphic operation can be performed in
  such Virtual Screens, which can be inserted in Owner Draw Combo and List
  Boxes or linked with a Graphic Control. A Virtual Screen can be linked
  with or inserted in several Graphic Controls or Combos at the same time.
  Any graphic operation can be performed in a Virtual Screen after it has
  been inserted or linked.

  Metafiles

  MetaFiles are a very powerful way of storing sequences of graphic
  operations in a symbolic list, and storing it in a file or loaded from
  it. MetaFiles can be inserted in List Boxes or linked to Graphic
  Controls as well as Virtual Screens.

  Self resizable Controls

  DV 1.2 lets its applications assign a Resize Style to its Controls,
  which tells DV how to move and/or resize them when their parent window
  is resized or maximized.

  Owner Draw Combo and List Boxes

  DV 1.2 offers new Combo and List Boxes where applications can insert
  Virtual Screens or MetaFiles instead of text. It is now possible and
  easy to create Controls browsing sophisticated graphic objects.

  New Window properties

  DV 1.2 assigns and manages new properties for its Controls and Windows:

   background color and brush
   maximized size and position, minimum and maximum tracking sizes.

  Contact

  Fiesta Publishing, Inc.
  1402 East Las Olas Blvd.
  Suite - 107
  Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
  Phone: (305) 525-0933
  Fax: (305) 523-2921
  BBS: (305) 525-0933